 Hello, everyone. And welcome to this month's webinar on MoodleNet, our global network to share and curate open educational resources. So I have with me today, Martin de Guillaume as the CEO of Moodle and MoodleNet product manager, Paul Hodgson, and together they're going to talk to you about MoodleNet. And after the presentation, we're going to have a question and answer session. So you're very welcome to ask your questions in the chat where you're also welcome to tell us where you're coming from. And if you want to raise your hands as well. So I'm going to hand over to Martin and Paul to start telling you and introducing MoodleNet to you. And thank you very much. Thank you, Mary. I'm I'll kick off here. This is my fault. And are you going to be forwarding the slides or Paul? There we go. Look, I'm so I'm going to talk about this project from a couple of angles and very short and then get out of the way and then let you see it with Paul. MoodleNet started with a problem and it's been a problem we face since the very beginning of Moodle. It's really been there for 15, 20 years, which is that we are here and the purpose of Moodle is to empower educators. We're here to give people tools to do great quality education online. And we work mostly on Moodle platform. And the trouble is when you are first given a new course or you create a new course in Moodle. You see something like this, a pretty empty blank canvas. And then it's your job as the person making this course to decide what to do next. And a lot of people are a few different things happen. What happens is people might have a few PDFs or documents that they used in their teaching before and they start dumping them in there. But that's not always a really good experience for students. Or people think, oh, well, I have to write all this content now. So they sit down and start adding pages and typing in all the content and creating their own textbook effectively and spending a lot of time doing it. Or you go out onto the search engines and you start looking on the Internet for things and you then have to go through a lot of stuff. So probably for everything that you find, you might have to look at tens or dozens of different versions of that before you find the right picture or the right video or the right text or whatever. So I always felt we could do better in Moodle. But for quite a few years, we've been trying to create the solution. So let's look at the next one here. There is nothing out there that we can just connect to. There never has been anything that's just perfect to connect to. There's nothing that covered all of these things that would work. So the solution is a place with curated collections. If there was a place where other teachers had already done the effort of collecting the best content for exactly your subjects, that would be ideal. If somebody who was teaching your subjects said, this video is really good and this text is really good. And these are the pictures I use and they could speak from experience because they've actually tested them with students. And they could say, this worked. That would be great. So this collection and all the work people have done to find those things has already been done. The curation has been done and now hopefully you coming on later can benefit. It should be very integrated with Moodle. So it should be when you're looking at that empty course, it should be a couple of clicks away so you can find it really easily. The third point here is that we don't want to build a system that is one big system that we own. We don't want this to be in the control of one organization. We're trying to build infrastructure and the way Moodle is as open source is exactly the same. It's a software that everyone can use. Everybody can customize, people can adapt to their own circumstances. And so we think MoodleNet should be the same way. There should be lots of opportunity for everyone to control a bit of MoodleNet and that it all works together in a consistent way. And we call that federation when you federate across a number of copies of the software. This thing should also handle links. So there's tons of existing content out there. All of that should be available. But also there should be a place where you can upload things. So if you have a whole Moodle course that you want to share with others, there should be a way to upload that or a PDF or whatever it is. And finally, this should be an open source platform. We want the community to help build this thing, to help improve it and all of the things that happens with the Moodle learning management system itself. So that is what MoodleNet is. So just cut to the next slide here. And we've had a number of attempts to build this system. I think we're on our third or fourth. We tried to build it on MoodleNet itself. That didn't work for a few reasons. We tried to build it using some very new technologies a couple of years ago and that didn't work for certain reasons. And so now we have this one. We're calling it 2.0 because a lot of those early ones didn't really take off. We have a whole new user experience. You can find and use resources. And a lot of people are already starting to help test it. You're going to see all of that. The resources are all tagged with metadata. And this is what makes it different from just the Google search. This is for education. So we're able to label things educationally and focus on this as an educational content system. Collections can be owned by people. So this is a very important and something that's come up over some of the previous situations that it wasn't doing. In this version, people own their collections. And that's very important that someone is responsible for their collection. And that way they get the credit for it. Also, you know who to talk to. And if it isn't any good, well, you know, the same thing, right? You know who to talk to and fix that. And the thing is, if you own it, you actually feel like you're more invested and you want to make it a higher quality. There's ways to like things and we want the community to judge what is good and what is not good. So that as well as the curation, everything can be evaluated in gentle ways so that over time the best stuff is available at the top. And that's what you'll find. And we have the ability to follow things. I think it's important that if you find someone who's doing good work that and they're in your area. It's great to stay in touch with them and then see new stuff they come up with in the future because that's going to be useful and you start working together better. Or just even to follow a subject and see updates in that particular subject area. We have a profile quite prominent profile and the reason for that is to we hope that this will be a place where everyone can. Be proud of their moodle net profile and say well you know I've I've spent a lot of time researching these areas and and I like to be known for that. So hopefully in time it'll become another profile as part of your portfolio along with your LinkedIn profile and your Facebook profiles and your Twitter profiles. And the last thing here is the integration with moodle we really want to work on making the integration with moodle very very close so that it's a good experience, but it isn't limited to moodle. And we are building in a way that's very open to the world and will be able to connect with all kinds of systems in the future. Some of the metadata here I'm I don't know if you want to talk about this Paul or shall I. Yeah, I'm happy to talk about it if you want me to take over it. Yeah, look, I'll hand over to you Paul. So I'll introduce Paul Paul's the project, the product manager of moodle net and leading all the development now and he is more than qualified to talk about at least sort of details and over to you Paul. Thanks Martin and welcome everyone thanks for attending today. Well, I'll show you the metadata thing in a moment just to talk about a little bit about the the reason why we did this, how we did these are the ways you can actually describe your resource on moodle net so you can describe based on a subject and that's based on the international standard classification of education. You can give it a level of education and you can give it a license based on creative commons, and these three things allow someone to judge exactly if it's in the right area, if it's the right level and obviously if you can use it and remix it etc. I will demonstrate this more than then talk about it. Also, you can do educational types you can say what's in there is an assessment is a presentation is at the website is it reading is a concept map is it and there are lots and lots based on the learning object model of the IE and what format is it so is it a video is it text is it a PDF is it etc and that covers any mime type that you can think about. You can even put in moodle backup files if you wanted to share, let's say a whole course, you could share that on moodle net to other people for them to send to their moodle as well. And finally language of course on ISO 639 we've got lots of languages available as well on every resource. I'm going to escape my screen from it so I can switch my window. Essentially what you're looking at now is available online it's moodle net and you can access this right now. I'm going to show you a live little run through so you can see it. And what I'm looking at here is the landing page or the homepage, which is as a new user, not logged in, no authentication, and the spirit of openness the idea behind this is that you should be able to find and use resources without an account. I can search for anything straight away so if I go for, for example, I can see a subject which Martin mentioned, I can see the collections. I can see the resources and I can see the people are all relevant to that search term. And hopefully you can see how responsive it is as well. So if I was to change that immediately I get climate resources collections and people as well. Now, from here you can see that even I can see everything. I can't actually start to follow anything I can go in and see people so I could say for example well, let's see this collection on climate change. This is what's been added in terms of resources to the system by moodle net so we create and curate some collections as well in moodle net, but generally it's other people that do it. Let me just search for a user and Anna's on the call so I hope she doesn't mind using her profile here. If I want to search for a specific person I can also do that. So I've just pulled up Anna who's on the moodle net team here, and I can see what Anna is doing on the system. Now, I cannot follow on it, and I cannot contact on it, because I am a guest user. I'm going to show you once we've logged in and once we've created account what we can do with this. And this tells you the resources that Anna has added to moodle net and the curation of content here as well. And you can see here Anna has four followers, five kudos which I'll get to in a moment and has uploaded seven resources. So Martin mentioned here about having a profile page where you can build your profile as an educator. And as you add resources, and you can see there are likes on site here which I cannot like because I'm a guest user but I could if I was a full user. Anna is then awarded kudos. So hopefully with a bit of mathematics we can add up these likes and that should equal number of kudos that Anna's had. This is a very rudimentary and basic way of measuring the usefulness of the profile of that person and also the resources individually. And this is going to become much bigger in terms of how we eventually search for items on moodle net and how things are rated as good items against those aren't so good and will become top of the search routines. Okay, so let me log in and I'll show you the difference. I'm just going to log in as myself. I have a profile on here and you'll see straight away. So my profile is presented when I log in. You can log in right now you can sign up. All you'll have to do is to click a link in your email to validate that you are a real user, and you will be able to do this yourself and customize your profile page. But you can see, totally customizable with my avatar my cover page and it then you can edit the the actual content of your page as well. So you should be able to identify it's me straight away. And you can see I've got 14 followers 14 kudos and I've uploaded 10 resources to this and I'm curating two collections here, one on NASA and one on animals. Now, if I was to look around now moodle net if I was to go back and say well okay let me search on climate again, which I did the first time. You'll see now that I can follow people immediately who have resources. Now if you look at this card on people you'll see the number of people following them, the number of kudos they've got and the number of resources this is quite a few people are here looking for content. But as we get through it you'll see that some people here are actually starting to be followed and curate their own collections. So if I look at the climate change, it was moodle net before you can now see that I can like unlike bookmark follow. So that will follow the collection itself or I can bookmark it. So the difference between bookmark and follow bookmark is really I want to check this later. I'm not ready to follow it follow it is that's actively my subjects and I'd like to follow this collection, and you can always then get to it from your profile so if I follow that climate change collection. And then I go to my profile and see what I'm following. You'll see that climate change is now in my profile list so that I get access to everything you can see who I'm following as well so I can go straight into their resources and see what they're doing. Okay, so searching is exactly the same whether you're a guest user or a full user it's only the ability to like follow get involved contact people. If you are a full user, you'll see if I go back to Anna's profile here that I can unfollow and follow again, or I can actually message Anna if someone I want to get in touch with. There's no email addresses that are publicly available so this is all in the system, and it's hidden and it's secure. So don't worry about losing your email address to system it's not public at all. Let me show you a little bit about adding resources here. So, starting with this plus sign up here so you can do a new resource or a new collection so as said before. The collection is the curation side of things it doesn't necessarily have to be your own resources in a collection that can be anywhere on middle net. If I just add a resource here. It's a very quick process to actually add this but it's actually extremely important that you put as much data in here as you can. I'm going to do two things first thing I'm going to do is to add a link so you can see a link here and I found a resource here on the water cycle from October 2010 our souls quite useful to my students. So I'm going to add this just as a link. So if I copy the URL there. I can add this back into paste the link. And add it. Now I can add a thumbnail if I wish to add a thumbnail to that if I don't moodle will put a lot more than that will put an automatic thumbnail in there for you and I need to start adding some metadata. These things are so important because they give the the resource the search ability aspect. So what we have here is we really would like something which contains lots of relevant texts that we can search on. So I'm going to put some of an executive summary in there. And what's also really useful is if we can put in how people can use this with their students because that's often how they're searching for things. And this is obviously the water cycle give it a quick title. Subjects these are the I said categories and you can just start to type well this is an environmental type. Subjects so I'll select that now as default. In case you wanted to add some resources and keep them private so then don't appear in the search results straight away. The visibility is set to private, but you can go to public if you're ready you can add these things as private come back later and publish them as well so I'm going to make this published. Let's add it to any of my collections. Now not really because this is my resource and these curated collections are other people's resources that I use. So I'm not going to add anything at that stage. And finally, this is the metadata which you don't have to add this is optional. However, this makes it much more likely that your, your resource will be found and used, because people are looking at what is this. Is it is it a full course. What language what level is it at well this is lower secondary education, you saw from the resource it was October 2010. And you don't have to drop these down you can actually search in these boxes as well. And this one is in English. But you can see lots and lots of language options so when I create this resource. And there you go that is now publicly available on moodle net, and you'll see from a resource anyone who finds this will see the screen, and they can then add it to their own collection. They can follow the link for it, or they can send it into their moodle straight into a course so teacher can actually be in a course on moodle and say, go and get this from moodle net, and it will bring it back as in this case a link, but it could be a resource image file PDF and it would put it into that course directly. I'm just going to show you that very quickly as well in terms of a file. So you can see the difference. So I'm going to do a new resource again and this time I'm going to click to upload a file. You can't see where I'm browsing of course but I'm just going to put a PDF in here, which is this PDF. It's a climate change PDF from the UK. And I'm going to just take the title. And again, we want a good description. So I'm going to just use the executive summary in terms of this. And normally I would also put how this is useful in my course. Again, this time because it's a file, it's a PDF file, I'm uploading it I'm going to have to tell the system what license it operates under. Now this is a totally open resource. Otherwise, I really wouldn't have added it to moodle net although you can add any of these Creative Commons licenses. This is totally the public domain and will be shown as such on the resource so people know they can use it. Again, it's an environmental science resource. And I'm going to publish this. Now this time, do I want to add it to anything? No, I don't again because this is a resource that I want other people to find and use. And what is it? Well, this one is more of a data set or a glossary. It's for the same level of education. The date for this one is actually right there. It was in 2020. We don't know when. So we will change that just to be 2020. And this one is also in English, but you can see the range of languages we have there. If you wanted to have different languages, it's fine. And we're getting quite a lot of non English content in moodle net already. So this time this file is uploaded to middle net. And there it is. Now you'll see the differences here. I can still send it to moodle. I can still add it to a collection, but this time I can download and use it. And that's very important because that can be used in any LMS or any educational system. At that point, you don't have to use it just with moodle. Okay. So that's movement. Now if I search for those things. So if I say consuming in here. There you go. And there's the results I've just uploaded. So it's immediately available in the search results. Let's talk about collections and for a moment. So collections this time if I wanted to have a new collection, I could put an image in for myself if I wanted to and it would show on the collections page. This is going to be on environment. And this is going to be, it could be a full description on the sorts of things I teach it could be the description of the resources whatever you wish. But this is also searchable so it should be a full description. Again, it will stay private until you make public. And that's it. The collection is now there now I can go and search on environment. Did it on consumption. So there was that one, I can now add that to my environmental collection. Essentially my environmental collection is available to other users now from my profile, it's appeared there and in it is the resource that I've added. And that's what we mean by curation that this can become a very long list of useful items for the environment. Now in there people can bookmark and like if you like your own resources you don't get kudos of course that would that would not make sense. But you can people can like it follow it bookmark it and so on. And again, they can then just use it as I did in their own system. And that's essentially moodle net. The nice thing about it is you know your bookmarks are still available anything you've bookmarked is here it's available via your profile, anything you're following is here. So you could just follow the subjects that you're interested in, and it would then give you the resources that are in that subject. You could just follow collections or say somebody is really good in terms of this and john welcome to the call I saw you join earlier. So you can you can use john's resources there as well. Again really nicely tagged and ready to be used. Now it's important that we do give kudos and we do give likes to things because that's the way when we search here that things are going to rise in the search engine so this resource here. So if you look at them all. These are all based on and you can see is one that has has a like, eventually that liked resource being the highest rated one for research would come top of the list. And that's essentially it you can filter by subjects collection resource and people relevance popularity. And that is moodle net as it says and you can see from the landing page here we're actually putting things on here which are well liked well used or subjects that have a lot of decent content in we actually add those to the front page. Now, as Martin said earlier, but moodle net you can install for yourself. So you get complete control over this as a as an organization as well if you wish to do that. And then you can federate it back and if you do federate it back to moodle net central. When we search in here, it will search not only the moodle net central but also your federated instance of data as well. So all search results will come through this screen. So just to show you a couple of things that that will happen in terms of the moodle integration so just going to skip back all these screens because this is your recorded screen shots if you want to look at this later. See here if I send something to moodle, a little pop up will come up and say, where is your moodle site. And you can put your moodle site in and send it straight over. Or if your moodle is configured correctly with moodle net central it's as simple as this it's in the admin side of your moodle installation. It works from 3.9 onwards. It will work in version four as well. Once you get that version, you can put this in all your own instance, and then moodle will send automatically and will include this next page which is when you add an activity or resource down at the bottom. You will have a link to browse content from moodle net and bring it straight into your course in moodle. What's next. Well, we'd like you to use moodle net and we'd like you to add some really good educational resources here to get it used and build up your own education profile. It's still in development. We are still looking at future features. We are still looking at any little tweaks we can do to make it better. We'd really like to know how you could use moodle net. You can tell us today but also you can contribute in our tracker. In moodle net itself when you log in there is a link to tracker in the bottom of the page. You can use it institutional level, install it yourself. And obviously being open source we're very keen to work with people who can develop and can sponsor some development within moodle net to make it better because there are some very large software developments coming to make it more useful. And if you've done anything in the past, even on moodle net or somewhere else, please add them to moodle net with more content becomes a greater useful system. And that's where we are. So thank you very much. I will pass back to Mary. Thank you. Okay. That was really good. So what I'm going to do now then is Paul and Martin we have lots of questions. And I'm going to take a look at them and I'm going to go through them one at a time if that's okay with you and everyone. And feel free either of you to answer them so starting with Sarah Sally who was asking, talking about the differences between moodle net and comments. I can address that one. So yes, OER Commons and many other OER collections are out there. They don't have the full benefit that we need in the LMS. So the integration in the LMS is not ever going to be as good. And secondly, if you go and look at OER Commons, there are thousands and thousands of things arranged by metadata in a very similar way. But I don't see the small collections that are curated by individual teachers that are easy to find and get and that kind of more personal approach, which I think certainly works on places like Pinterest and other places like that. And I think it's a look it's an experiment as well, we're going to see how it's going to work but I think it will enable more people to feel more able to put their expertise into the system. OER Commons is sort of one big site. And that's another angle that moodle net is designed to be hosted by many, many organizations and OER Commons is reliant on one organization to host it if that organization doesn't get funding next year. That site could disappear. And so we're trying to build something that's distributed the risk is distributed here. Sam is very pleased with the bookmarks and the likes by the way a comment there, and also is talking about copyrights and trusting users and how will you deal with that kind of thing. Well, you might have noticed in that demo there was some junk. And that's because moodle.net, which is our installation over that open source software. So it's only the main one. But it has been open for a while we've been testing we've had it we've had the doors wide open anybody can come in and upload stuff. And they have been. So the the work from here on is putting barriers in so that only people who are putting good stuff are able to be seen. And the very first one is landing. When Paul next week next week next week, which is that there'll be a small barrier to jump that when you first get on the site, you even when you have an account, you can upload things but those things can't be seen by anyone else. So when you have five resources, good resources, you can apply to be approved, and our team will approve the user and then your things will will appear and be seen. Now that's a very base level thing. And we have some well Paul has some interesting plans with the moodle net team to create a full sort of gamification tree, something like you might see on stack overflow or if you didn't look at Apple discussions or a lot of online forums. And users rank up as they do more good things. And the more good things you do the more trust everyone gets and the more responsibilities you're given and you're able to do more and more so this way we can let the community manage things as much as possible. Thank you. We have a couple of language related questions that have us as asking does it support Arabic language and Anna's replied yes. I wonder if you could talk a bit in general about the language interface or resources in different languages, Shell was saying if we have a resource, and we upload it in different if we have it in different languages, do we have to upload every single resource or can we upload it once and it will can be accessed or downloaded in in our choice of language so maybe something on that lines. Yeah, I can take that one. Essentially at the moment, each resource is linked to one language as there isn't a feature to say this is available in these so it's separate resources at the moment. This is what exactly we want to know because this is where we're going with mood on it right now you can say we need this as a as a as a function as a feature will go into the roadmap for discussion and the same as we do with moodle you know we will be looking at who votes for what and how many people are interested and that will get prioritized on that basis. So yes it does do Arabic it does support all those languages, but it's single language single resource right now. Thank you. And our bus is asking about visibility of the students so for instance, can I create a resource and make it only visible to my students if they then sign up as well in moodle.net. I'll take that one because I noticed there was a bit of a thread of people saying this is great but I just want to have my own private space. And that is that is exactly the design so moodle net is designed for you to able if you want to you can install your own instance your own copy of moodle net. Administer it run at your own way have your own accounts it can be private you don't need to let everyone else in and you can you could set it up so that only your institution has access or maybe your own set of institutions. It's, it's not really we have not thought about it as a place for students to be hanging out there like it's it doesn't replace moodle. If you actually just want to give resources to your class, just put them in moodle where you don't need moodle net for that. But if you want to have a kind of repository a collection of curations going on over time, then installation of moodle net might work for you. And then how it works is there's a switch, or there will be a switch to say, we would like our moodle net to be accessible to the world. And when you turn on the switch, it's now connected to the other moodle net sites and you can and one global search can search all of them. And just to add to that one because there's another question I noticed in the chat saying, do we copy or do we link to federated data it's just a link we're not going to host the world that's the idea with a distributed system. Okay, thank you. In terms of what is uploaded and adab's asking, how about uploading or sharing moodle modules. I would say no, that's not a proper use of moodle. I mean, I don't think it would be very good to have code running code shared through a system like this. Even content is tricky enough but code is not something we have other solutions for code and adab the moodle plugins database and we're looking at extending that into a kind of an app store as well so that'll be more properly like an app store. Okay, Nikos is asking when you add a resource in your collection, can you edit it afterwards, meaning can I get a resource, then build on it generating a new resource essentially adding other metadata and so on. Absolutely, as long as you put in the three basic pieces of information which is the resource itself, the subject, a title and a description, and a license if it's an actual upload. Everything else can be done that later you can add at that point and come back and edit it as much as you want. Okay, thank you. And in terms of feedback on resources we know that you can like resources but Mark is asking other plans to allow users to leave comments or feedback in other words more detailed feedback could be useful for the creator to receive feedback on maybe how others have used it or what they liked about it. Absolutely yes this is coming next, when we talk about gamification we talk about that social aspect of how people comment I don't know if you're aware of somewhere like Stack Overflow. This is all part of the same system for gamification where the comment itself is then marked as useful. It's useful to the teacher it's useful to the person that wants to read it etc. So this is on the plan for the next version. Okay I'm going to dive as another question. Is it possible to bulk upload resources with metadata. It's a great question. Yeah, go on Martin. Will you get the metadata right. You know if you're dumping a thousand things into your system. Is it going to be useful to anyone afterwards is my question. I think it's, I don't, there's no tool for that right yet Paul, but surely as an open source project if people solve those problems they'll be great add-ons or plugins or additions to MoodleNet for sure. I think overall I would like to see MoodleNet focus on quality over quantity. But we'll you know we're going to see how it works out. MoodleNet thank you and is it possible to order items within a collection. At the moment no they're in the order that you upload them. But that's again another one that will be quite easy for somebody to contribute something to make that available. Okay thank you and another question from Nadav, but I'm going to choose other people as well actually. I think you've kind of covered this he's asking can teachers discuss a resource well you're planning on extra feedback aren't you I suppose that's sort of the way towards it. Michael says is there any granularity availability plan for public versus private resources. In terms of sharing assessments with only other educators. Again I think you've sort of covered that in that you can have your own install but what about, you know, other ways centrally. It depends on how you want to let them in and how do you know they're an educator is it are they very particular people like do you have a group of 100 people you want to share it with. In which case you might want to run your own private MoodleNet server and give them access to it. But it might get a little complicated if everyone's managing access on a per resource basis. You know, maybe maybe it'll get there but I think our job is to try and keep everything simple as possible. If it gets too complicated it's probably going to get hard to use and then and then it won't be used. Okay, I think this has already been answered but I want to highlight it really from Fatima Danielle. Will there be whole Moodle courses available and MoodleNet that can give inspiration to other course developers the content, different styles of activities information etc as someone who's created many courses this will be so useful to me. Absolutely yes. This is exactly what it's intended for and we are already working on if you were to back a Moodle course how do we actually extrapolate that data into MoodleNet so that it gives you a full overview of what that course is about before you then send it back to your version of MoodleNet. It is already possible to put back ups Moodle backups into MoodleNet now and send them back to MoodleNet. So it supports that. It's what Paul was saying was about getting a preview of the course before you copy it into your own MoodleNet. And Shell is saying if we find some content that's not appropriate, how should we proceed? I mean for now for instance. That's what Martin was saying about this new feature that's coming next week which is essentially we want to be able to approve people before they can post publicly. They can post but it doesn't become public until you approve them as a trusted profile essentially. So that will be available from next week. Other than that you will be able to restrict the user accounts if you have your own install installed so you could say that only our network of email addresses is allowed to post anything. Otherwise they would just be ignored or closed down completely so they couldn't post. And we can also add and we've discussed ways of flagging problematic content that might have slipped through or not been seen. But we have to be careful making that completely automated because you know say all of us here decide to go to a resource. We're having a zoom call and hey let's go and all thumbs down on one resource. We could take it off the site even if it was actually good. So these are really interesting issues on how we collaboratively manage so much data together and I think these are important problems for us to solve in this age. So I'm hoping the moodle community will help us solve these things in a nice way. What we don't want to do is have a team of 100,000 editors working behind the scenes. Like Facebook having to continually check everything. Thank you. I see lots of questions so I'm going to move on. Marlene the social side of moodle net so we know about the communication in terms of comments about resources. What about communication separate or independent from resources such as making a post or having a news feed. Yes, essentially that's already capable we're curating the front page which is a news feed essentially, but that will all come into the gamification as well. So you when you log into moodle net you will have well these are the things that you are interested in things that you follow, but also on the other side. These are the things which are being discussed and our hot topics etc etc yes that's coming to the gamification. Thank you. We have a technical question here so I'll just read it is a release planned with an official release planned with Docker. Yep, if you follow the document link to the moodle docs is already a Docker installation out there of this version we're running on npm so you can get that right now and install it yourself. Thank you. I was just asking can you upload video I don't see why not. Right you're right Mary you don't see why not it's a technical discussion that one the answer is yes technically you can but we we obviously have to control server resources. So someone put a 20 gigabyte video file it's probably not the best use of resources and that might be restricted by the environment but yes is the is the short answer to that. I have a couple of technical questions I don't know how far you want to go or detail you want to do with that unless there's somewhere you can point people to Alex wants to know the tech requirements to run a moodle net server for local use. Are they similar to running moodle. Would you be able to configure it on your internet intranet or would it require technical settings. I don't want to get too technical if you want to go to the community and ask questions I'm happy that the team answers these very specifically but if you look at the instructions for the install. It is actually very straightforward if you know how to do a couple of vessels eight scripts. You can actually pull moodle net down to your internet locally in about four comments and set it up and run it that quickly. Yes but any technical questions put them in the community will answer them as soon as we can. If I can add to that. I would say that if you can install moodle from scratch and that means putting PHP and databases and things like that then you have no problem installing this but it is a completely different set of technologies. And it's not really just the install it's maintenance so you know you're you've become a system administrator now so you are now running a system that's going to have updates and it's going to have maintenance. And it's like anything else so yeah it's not I don't think it's very hard but it's definitely something to consider. Richard's asking can you filter a search by language. That's coming as well in the next version at the moment you will if you do a keyword search it will just give you all languages but you saw on the left that you can filter by people resources. And if any metadata as a system builds is going to include the ability to filter by those metadata yes on the left hand side of the page. Okay. I think there's a quick answer to this Luca, since we seem to be in the technical type side. Does this moodle net to redesign still relate to the activity protocol. I can probably take that. No, because the and that was actually an issue with the previous iteration we tried to build the whole thing around this protocol. And that led to the architecture of the system going a certain way that protocol was not perfect for our use case. And so the architecture turned out to be not very easy to work with in summary so with the redesign we took a lot of time to go back to fundamentals. I think activity pub is still a useful format for transferring data from one system to another. I would not build a system around it again. So we can still add activity pub support to moodle net. Now we can still add it but it hasn't been a focus. The focus has been to get the core experience right in the structure. Okay, thank you. I've just got three more. And I see we're coming towards the hour which is brilliant. How will you from keeper how will you manage the translation of the project into other languages. It was a technical answer to that. Yeah, I mean it's totally capable to use what we call POT files on a moodle net instance so that it's automatically all the strings are translated into language you want. And that's in built into the system. We're running it only in English right now but yeah we this will be browser based translation automatically based on on POT files. Thank you. Now Sally is giving me a great opportunity to promote the course that is attached to this webinar because she's saying, should I be able to create a resource and assuming she means add one. It doesn't seem to work. Sally, if it doesn't work or you're having problems, please go into the course and we'd love everyone to go in the course and try the activities and there is a forum there where we can discuss moodle net and if you complete the activities you can get a badge. So maybe that might help you. Diana says thanks for this it's something which the community is eager to use. If you have the possibility to have communication and resources, limited to a group or community so you can adhere to a group that's slightly too connected to having your own organizations. Isn't it I suppose. Yeah, it's the same that the similar answer is that if you have a large issue use case where it makes it worth it to run and all your own moodle net installation. And that's what you should do. You run a moodle net of your own put your own things in there have your own people there. However, the overall project we are biased towards opening and we want to open things we want to encourage people to share. We are the lovely thing about open source is that it also encourages privacy. And we hope that most people will will default to sharing things. Excellent. Richard is saying this all looks brilliant 10,000 kudos to Paul and his team which is nice. As we're heading towards the top of the hour now just like to know how any of you are thinking you might want to use moodle net yourself in your own organizations. And then I'm going to talk to you a little bit about how you can get involved in Academy having joined in this particular webinar. So are there any more questions or any thoughts on how you might use moodle net. Sally says we've been looking for something like this for ages and now you found it Sally. Yeah, I would love to know what kind of use case you have you know university college is it a private company is it a some other sort of institution. Yes, I for instance if you've been looking for something like this for ages why have you been looking for it if you if you'd like to tell us. Or anyone else now throw it in there. Do you want to speak quickly. Yeah, turn on some marks. Okay. Kim saying she's asking all lots of people are answering now. I'm losing track. Yeah, okay so to break the ice. So our institution we really thought about a platform which we like to have to have the lecture shares open education resource. Then we call it the virtual Academy or Germany virtual Academy. And as you probably know, we focused to use that technology and so yeah. In our place there's a moodle net server running already. And we're looking forward to introduce that to the people. Great. Thank you. We've got Kim who's going to ask her college to connect to moodle net Eduardo, who is lobbying for moodle net in key key 12 education in Israel, who says there's much to benefit from moodle net. Justin says not grand focus but it will be very useful as a content repository for organizations with large content databases. Sally says we have huge collections of resources and we want staff to be able to share, not only with we each other but to be able to publish openly and that is a great idea. I'm going to ask one last question and then I'm going to talk to you about getting involved in Academy. Alex, is there a way to have integration with H5P or our hub. I can talk about that. So they have their own. One easy way to integrate is if you have a number of H5P resources that you think are useful and belong together in a collection, then you can just manually create one resource for each one in moodle net and link them across and put them into a collection. An automatic joining of the two it's very hard to see how that would work or should work. Really, I think we need to be focusing on the collections part, not just on putting millions of things in there because then you have the same problem as Google does right search engines have. Yeah, we need to focus on human beings choosing some things and putting them in there. I think so. Could I just add something there as well from the questions I can see you know people are obviously thinking we've got, you know, hundreds of thousands of resources and things like that. We are looking to do a few tests with people, as Luke has already, we're already helping you guys out to try and get you with your own instance and prove it as a case so you know if you want to contact me. I'll certainly talk to you about how we can help you do it. Thank you. And yes we are getting lots of people talking about how they envisage using moodle net. And can I just remind you before we finish them that we have a discussion forum on the course where you're welcome to go and continue asking questions and talking about moodle net. So I would just like to bank Martin and Paul very much for the presentation back all of you for your questions. And if you've enjoyed this, then please will you get involved in Academy by joining the get involved course which is on Academy and suggesting other ideas for us for webinars and courses. You might even like to contribute to a webinar yourself as a presenter and then you will have a presenter badge, or if you are a course writer or developer, why not help us in creating a course and get a course build a badge. And of course, please help us spread the word. Tell others that you've been to this webinar and tell them to come and watch the recording. 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